I’ve seen family members die from cancer, not old ones either (in their 40s)
It’s awful, even with hospice. The last few weeks are brutal. I remember my Aunt violently convulsing before taking her last breaths.
If they had this option I believe they would have taken it.
If I’m ever in their shoes I’ll pop a couple xanax bars & percocets, down them with a few beers and call it a day. Being in buffalo finding something with Fentanyl in it is pretty easy. No way I’m suffering like they did. People who OD and are resuscitated with Narcan do not feel any pain/suffering before they die. All they do is go to sleep.
There is definitely a place for MAID in cases of terminal diseases where quality of life is non-existent and prolonging the suffering is nothing more than inhumane. Everyone has stories of someone with cancer dying with no dignity and terrible suffering long after the healthcare system had switched from fighting mode to end of life care.
HOWEVER… as Canada is quickly proving it is an EXTREMELY slippery slope… even more so with government provided healthcare where MAID starts looking like a huge cost saver. When ever the government both decides who does/doesn’t qualify for MAID while also footing the bills for that person’s treatments the potential is great for abuse. The horror stories coming out of Canada of opening this up to minors and people that just have mental issues is just disgusting.
Astonishingly, a doctor has given one of the two signatures required for Landry to end his own life, despite knowing that financial hardship - not illness - is a leading reason for the profound decision.
Landry wryly pointed out that home visits by doctors ceased to be the norm decades ago - but ‘they’re willing to do a house call to kill you’.
‘He [the doctor] didn’t hold anything back with me either. He said that he knows he has admitted MAID to people based on poverty but they didn’t tell him,’ Landry said.
